Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Come on, guys!! I can't wait to see what everybody else has been doing this year. Pick out some photos and send them in! You can do it. Tina On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:18 PM Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Hi there ? > > I?m not much at playing Ted Grant, God rest his soul. As the deadline for > the LUG yearbook approached he would go into saturation mode and send > message after message encouraging members to submit photos to the annual > yearbook. > > The number of photographers submitting to the yearbook this year is down 26 > percent from last year, > > Brian has extended the deadline. > > I am reminded of a small-town newspaper in the late 1970s that ran a story > on the front page beside a three-column blank space with a border. In the > middle of the blank space were the words ?This is where the photo would > have gone if the photographer had not missed the deadline." > > Can you imagine what the yearbook would look like if Brian ran an empty > bordered box with the name of the LUG member right in the middle who did > not submit photographs? > > The Leica Users Group is founded on two principles: a forum by which > members can request, or offer, information about cameras and lenses and > adaptors and such. > > The other premise is sharing photographs. I don?t know of a photographer > anywhere who isn?t interested in seeing what others have photographed. For > those who refuse to post to the LUG, there is the annual yearbook. > > Let?s look at this opportunity from a different perspective. The display > area of the yearbook for two pages is about 19 inches by 8-1/2 inches. If > you decided to buy an advertisement in a daily newspaper in a metropolitan > city, that ad with your color pictures would cost you an average of > $22,700. How many can afford that? > > But take the same two photographs and submit them to the yearbook ? the > salient part of that word is ?book? ? the appearance in the yearbook is > (gasp) free! > > There?s still time. Go through the photos you took last year, pick the two > best and SUBMIT THEM. > > Otherwise, Ted Grant is going to haunt you. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index https://pbase.com/tinamanley